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at St Anne de Bellevue, to Principal Gumming at Truro, and others, 

 as well as to the accomplished members of their staffs, we are 

 under heavy obligations. 



The Honourable Sydney Fisher, Dominion Minister of Agriculture, 

 not only entertained us at his beautiful home farm at Knowlton in 

 Quebec, and smoothed our way with an unfailing considerateness 

 that has left an abiding sense of gratitude, but also put at our 

 service, throughout considerable portions of the tour, Mr J. A. 

 Ruddick, the Dairy and Cold Storage Commissioner, and Mr G. H. 

 Clark, the Seed Commissioner, whose stores of knowledge were opened 

 to us with a fullness and a courtesy beyond all acknowledgment. 



From the time of our arrival at Rimouski to our departure from 

 Quebec, we had the unsparing attention of Mr Blake Robertson. 

 The members of the Commission desire to place on record their 

 consciousness of his anxious care for their comfort and convenience, 

 and their indebtedness to his wide familiarity with the Dominion. 



.It remains to say, that by the kindness of the expert ofl&cers in 

 Ottawa, the large body of facts and statistics in the Report has 

 been checked and brought up to date. 



SUNSET ON LAKE SUPEKIOK 



